Podcast: Harvey Thomas – Surviving the Brighton Bombing

Dan Wooding’s amazing interview with Harvey Thomas, Margaret Thatcher’s press officer, a Christian, who was blown up during the Conservative Party Conference in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, on October 12, 1984, and survived it. Years later he was able to meet the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomber, Patrick Magee, and forgive him and they now do reconciliation conferences together.

Dan Wooding, 79, is an award-winning journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, Alfred and Anne Wooding from Liverpool, and is now living back in the UK with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 57 years. They had lived in the US for 36 years and returned home to be close to their two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren. Dan continues to write and conduct radio interviews for ANS. Dan is one of the few Christian journalists to ever be allowed to report from inside of North Korea. His life story has been turned into a screenplay by screenwriter, Claire Hutchinson. For more information contact Dan at danjuma1@aol.com.

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